I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Peking University School of Government, a research scientist at the Research Center for Contemporary China (RCCC), and the deputy director of the Center for Comparative Party & Politics (CCPP) at Peking University.

My research interests include political psychology and behavior, representation, and politics of identity, discourse & contention, particularly their intersections with developmental, institutional, policy, and leadership dynamics in China and across the globe. I am also interested in international-domestic linkages and security & conflict. 

My book, Ordering Loyalties: Hierarchical Authoritarianism and Governance in China and Beyond (forthcoming, Palgrave Macmillan), examines via mixed methods how China's central-local politics of redistribution and information stratify the multi-layered state authorities in the mass public’s political perceptions, allegiances, and actions, thereby structurally entrenching top-down rule. It contributes to a new avenue where the comparative studies of authoritarianism, intergovernmental relations, and mass politics intersect.

I received my Ph.D. in Political Science under the mentorship of M. Kent Jennings from the University of California, Santa Barbara, M.A. in  Public Policy & Management from Tsinghua University, and B.A.s in Political Science & Public Administration and Economics respectively from Peking University. 

I can be reached at yanjun_liu@pku.edu.cn  or yjpku05@gmail.com

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